Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both
2 ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin .
3 This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ .
4 it 's been on for about the past month
5 Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks .
6 Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it .
7 Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do
8 You 've not been on for a while have you ?
9 Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ?
10 So typical , is n't it , that when you go to see plays , you always like , dashing to the last minute to try and get tickets and been on for like , two months .
11 not been on for ages .
12 It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round .
13 The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long .
14 IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow .
15 Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays .
16 He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school .
17 She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night .
18 He had seen Frank 's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening , and had been deeply shocked .
19 She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom .
20 looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without
21 The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea .
22 As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake .
23 Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon .
24 Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’
25 ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’
26 Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more .
27 Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores .
28 In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 .
29 It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail .
30 It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time .
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